A well-done tutorial of how to leverage the Project Standards feature in Architectural Desktop.
AEC CAD Standards and Projects in Autodesk Architectural Desktop: AECbytes Tips and Tricks
I’ll comment on one common misconception made however…
“Those using it will be all too familiar with the abundance of drawing files the process creates: Constructs, Elements, Views, and Sheets are all independent drawing files of the ADT project environment. When coupled with multiple users, this creates a management nightmare, making it all the more critical to maintain a consistent standard of content.”
The Projects feature allows people to work in different ways depending on their needs. One workflow, independent of the Project Navigator tool, is to break up the collection of project drawings as follows:
- Base drawings (containing the building geometry and for some firms, devoid of any annotations)
- Composite drawings (xrefs of various base drawings to create the various plans in the project and where annotations can exist)
- Plot sheet drawings (merely xref in composite drawings for the purposes of being plot-ready;some firms will annotate in sheets)
These concepts were transferred into the much beloved 
terms: Constructs/Elements, Views, and Sheets.
The Projects feature in Architectural Desktop allows one to segregate design work into as many individual .dwgs as required for the project and user’s workflow. If for coordination reasons, one wishes to break up a project into multiple dwgs to faciliate file sharing based on area of work, this is supported. If this type of workflow is not necessary, than the Projects feature supports this as well.
Chris
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